Teenage Girls Arrested in Joppa for Stealing Van

Maryland State Police arrested two juveniles suspected of stealing a van in Baltimore City before driving it to Harford County on Monday.

The female suspects, ages 15 and 17, were charged as juveniles with unlawful taking of a vehicle. After being processed at the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barrack, the juveniles were taken to the Thomas J.S. Waxter Children’s Center on Laurel.

Shortly before 3 p.m. on Monday, a plain clothes trooper observed a blue Dodge van enter the parking lot of the Wawa on MD-152 at I-95 in Joppa, Md. The trooper observed two females park at the Wawa and walk toward a liquor store, stop and then proceed back to the vehicle. The trooper also observed abnormal behavior and suspected possible criminal activity.

The trooper contacted the Bel Air barrack and requested a registration check which revealed the vehicle was stolen in Baltimore City earlier in the day. According to investigators, the vehicle was stolen by the suspects after the vehicles owner left it running unattended outside their home in the 5800 block of Willowton Avenue.

The trooper maintained visual contact as the vehicle was driven to the corner of Mountain and Philadelphia roads and entered the Carroll Fuel gas station on 900 block of Philadelphia Road. Troopers responded as the covert trooper dispatched a physical description of the females as they entered the attached store.

Troopers detained the females without incident. The juveniles were identified and are known to law enforcement.

Both females were wearing monitoring anklets. A monitoring officer with the Department of Juvenile Services contacted the Bel Air Barrack and requested the juveniles be transported to DJJS for retake. Several credit cards were found in the juveniles’ possession with others’ names. The credit cards appear to have been stolen within the past week from several different victims.

Thank you to Maryland’s Finest! Two juvenile (“so called”) thieves (definitely) up to no good with a safe proof anklet that needs upgraded BIG time! Make their detention count..stolen van & credit cards are no misdemeanor…Definition…a minor wrong doing

@ Meryl
I think you should open your home to these poor misguided youths. While your at it invite in a few undocumented illegals and some Syrian refugees. Just what our country needs to become great again more coddling liberals like yourself.

Are you seriously smacked in the head? This is not society’s fault. 15 or 17 year old teenagers know right from wrong, especially those who are known by law enforcement and wearing ankle shackles. THEY took the van, NOT society. If you keep hugging these offenders and tell them it’s all going to be alright, their next action will be drug running. I definitely would start with the parents. If they can’t be of help – then the only recourse is to show them what consequences for your actions are. Mercy? maybe the first time that’s what they got and they didn’t learn from that either! Grow up or grow some brains.

What’s the real deal with the ankle monitors? Another Maryland dysfunctional program that has lost it’s way?

Are they supposed to be “monitored” in real time, or at least sound off a submarine klaxon siren on someone’s computer speaker with a red flashing light on the screen when the GPS signal starts to wander off some set limit? LOL

Remember that movie from the late 70’s? I think it was called Logan’s Run. Premise being that people had collars around their necks that exploded and severed their heads if they went where they weren’t supposed to. Seems like a great idea for these two and about a million other ankle bracelet wearers!

Most people are already wearing or carrying collars to begin with. Those cellphones everyone carries are basically collars. They know exactly where you are or where you’ve been. They might not explode when you do something that you aren’t supposed to, but they have a similar effect. It’s very easy for the government to track you when you carry a cellphone…..

That’s great, but it appears the “government” couldn’t even track, or the lowest form “notify” anyone in Baltimore/Harford County of these individuals while they were evidently creeping around Baltimore and Harford County in a stolen automobile.

I know what it was. The person must have been in the break room eating fresh Dunkin donuts while the screen flashed red and the speakers were whaling a party siren you here at the “clubs.”

Less breaks and more watching the screen to make sure these people don’t leave their house LOL

What I’m getting at is they should’ve been tracking their cells, not the bracelets…..I’m sure a waiver of some sort is, could’ve or would’ve been added to the juvenile’s contract of probation in the small print. Always look for the easiest way of accomplishing a goal, unless its thru the courts system of treachery. In the courts system make it as difficult as possible….